1. QUIZ: FUNGI AND BACTERIA
Name ______________________________________ Date ____________________ Period ___________
QUIZ: FUNGI AND BACTERIA
Directions: Place all your answers directly on this sheet. For multiple-choice questions, write the letter of the answer that you choose on the line provided. For free-response questions, use the space provided to make your response. Make sure that your response completely answers the question. Do not leave any questions blank or numbers naked! Blank questions will be marked off at double the rate of a wrong answer. Good luck, have fun, and learn much!
0. What is the square root of pumpkin pi?
1. Name one structural feature that fungi and bacteria have in common.
2. What is the main way that fungi reproduce?
A. Spores B. Seeds C. Zygophores D. Enterozygotes _________
3. The part of a fungus that grows above the ground is known as the
A. Stump B. Gizzard C. Crop D. Fruiting body _________
4. What is the difference between a gram-positive and a gram-negative bacterium?
5. What is the purpose of a sex pilus in bacteria?
6. What is one thing that humans and fungi have in common, in terms of nutrition?
7. What are the small rings of DNA called that bacteria can trade during sexual reproduction?
A. DNA-Os B. Plasmids C. Cosmids D. Extra-cellular DNA _________
8. What is one advantage to reproducing asexually?
9. What is one advantage to reproducing sexually?

2. 10. Zygomycetes usually reproduce sexually, while Basidomycetes usually reproduce asexually. Which of these two types of fungi would you expect to have more genetic variation, and why?
11. What kind of hyphae is shown in the figure to starboard?
A. Coenocytic B. Septate
C. Singular D. Zygomatic
12. Some fungi live together with algae, forming lichen. This relationship is known as
A. Rather cozy B. Symbiotic C. Parasitic D. Mycotic _________
13. Eubacterial cell walls are made out of
A. Chitin B. Cellulose C. Peptidoglycan D. Psudeomurin _________
14. What do bacteria do about cellular respiration, as they do not have any mitochondria?
15. Doctors often prescribe antibiotics when a bacterium like Streptococcus pyrogenes, the bacterium that causes strep throat, infects a human. With increasing and alarming rates, however, these bacteria are becoming resistant to many of the common antibiotics that are prescribed. In a few, well-organized paragraphs, address the following points:
What is so special about bacteria that allows them to develop a resistance to antibiotics so quickly?
How do antibiotics work? Specifically, how do they kill bacterial cells, but leave human cells unharmed?
Are bacteria completely to blame for their increasing resistance to antibiotics? Are humans doing anything to allow them to become more and more resistant?